Time is running out on this amazing sale on my book! I’ve just spoken with the publishers and they’re not planning another sale like this for some time! The response this month has been spectacular and I am so honored that so many of you have purchased my work. If you are still considering it, please be sure to contact me if you have any questions. You can order in 3 ways:
1. You can use this link to purchase from the publisher’s site:
https://upub.net/handwriting-development-assessment-and-remediation
2. You can head over to my website and order from there:
https://handwritingwithkatherine.com/about-the-book
3. Or, if you need the book shipped outside of the continental US, you can email the publisher at [email protected] for shipping costs.
As always, I appreciate your reading, sharing, and using the strategies I share here - both mine and those of others.
As we approach the fifth day of my publisher’s AOTA Conference Sale on my book, I’d like to share an excerpt from Chapter 4: A Practice Model for Handwriting Performance:
“Client-centered therapy implies that the individual for whom the services are designed will actively and willingly participate in the rehabilitation process. This includes both a behavioral and a motivational component on the client’s part (Collmer, 2015). The client-centered performance context provides the framework for understanding, evaluating, and interpreting the individual’s occupational performance. The occupational performance perspective views the performance of a task as an interaction between the individual and the environment versus the environment being a separate context from the individual. Therefore, a client-centered performance context considers an individual’s motivational characteristics, roles, and capacities to be just as critical as the task and features of the environment when considering therapeutic interventions. These elements provide a framework to guide our understanding of why and how an individual performs the task the way he does and to assist us in determining the aspects of task performance that limit his success....
An occupational therapy practice that focuses on a client-centered model requires a system of relationships in order to be successful. It depends on a clear understanding and acceptance of the underlying behavioral and motivational concepts of the model and the ability to foster a growth mindset in the therapeutic environment.... The success of client-centered therapy is based on a growth mindset in which the child believes he has the ability to increase his skills. A growth mindset assists in the development of a strong client-therapist relationship (Collmer, 2016, p. 40.”
An excerpt from Chapter 13, “Posture, Seating, and Movement: Links to Learning:”
“A visual sweep of the classroom scene will uncover as many seated body postures as there are students. For the most part, an upright position will not be the one most utilized. Slouching, leaning forward, legs curled
up on the chair seat, and resting heads on the desk, arm, or hand will most likely be the seated positions that will be observed. For some students, the posture they present is the one that works best for them to adapt to weak muscles or diminished visual skills, al- lowing them to save their energy for the task at hand and to avoid spending it to keep their body upright or their eyes positioned correctly. For others, the postur- al positions they’ve adopted may be the product of an inadequate seating arrangement, most likely exposure to inappropriately sized chairs and desk tops beginning in preschool and continuing into their present class- room. However, for some children, their preferred seating postures could represent their natural “urge for movement” (Breithecker, n.d., p. 6) and their attempt to “sustain [their] physical and mental resources” as they concentrate on a task (Breithecker, n.d., p. 4). Of course, these postural behaviors can also indicate the simple need for sleep. Fatigue can also result in in- appropriate posture. All of these postural influences are legitimate and valid reasons for examination and assessment of the child’s postural efficiency during the completion of both gross and fine motor tasks (Collmer, 2016, p. 138).”
Tomorrow is the big day! Universal Publishing’s AOTA Conference Sale on my book begins and will run until April 7.
Here’s a sneak preview of the Table of Contents and the price! You can order on my website or on the link provided in my FB offer on this page...but not until tomorrow!
THERE’S A SALE COMING! Universal Publishing has announced an AOTA Conference Sale from April 1-7 on my book! Again this year, they will be offering it to all of my wonderful readers at the sale price of $39.95! Look for my Facebook Offer and don’t miss out on this great deal! You can order via my website or at the link in the next paragraph. For purchasers out of the continental US, please email the publisher at [email protected] for shipping costs. As always, if you have any questions or problems, please feel free to message me!
If you are interested in the Table of Contents, go on over to my publisher’s site at https://upub.net/handwriting-development-assessment-and-remediation and swipe the cover of my book to the left to view it!
